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> I could make it just open the first display if there were 2 and they
> were both M3s, but is there are more general test to see if this is
> necessary?
In the normal case, we really want all displays opened. This make
sure everything gets properly initialized by the firmware. The
fact that m3mirror "hack" doesn't work in this case is a side
effect ;) It could probably be fixed by other means though.
>
> > > The proper solution would be to add dualhead support to
> > > aty128fb.c. (or pester BenH until he either writes the code or gives
> > > us enough information to do it -- now that radeonfb is mostly fixed,
> > > maybe we can get a chance ? ;)
> >
> > Or to XFree r128 driver...
>
> Is is much of a hack to the build scripts (debian ones) for X to just
> have the r128 driver rebuilt and the .o files relinked as needed?
> Otherwise it will take ages and ages for itterative builds?
>
> > I don't have time to work on that and the information I have is
> > under NDA, so while I can use it to write code, I can't just publish
> > it... Sorry...
>
> No problem. I will have a look at it, but I don't have alot of spare
> time.
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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